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A Critique Of The Southern Baptist Sunday School's Attitude Toward Children Based On Current And Historical Analyses, Amy Joyner
Honors Theses
Sunday School, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For some, Sunday School elicits a host of positive memories and current images: playing games, making bread, singing songs, coloring, reciting memory verses, studying Scripture, enjoying refreshments, talking with friends, laughing and sharing. For others, Sunday School is simply a waste of time. In fact, in 1957 Life magazine labeled Sunday School ''the most wasted hour of the week." It seems that more and more Americans in recent decades have agreed with this pronouncement, for Sunday School attendance among mainline denominations has continued to drop at a steady rate. …
A Re-Evaluation Of The Aesthetics Of Jean-Baptiste Dubos And Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, John Grayson Nichols
A Re-Evaluation Of The Aesthetics Of Jean-Baptiste Dubos And Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, John Grayson Nichols
Honors Theses
Horace did remark "ut pictura poesis," as in painting so
poetry. But the rest of the pronouncement, rarely quoted, - "one
work seizes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you
stand at a distance" - refers to how the arts can been viewed
from similar angles, not that the arts are essentially created
with the same purposes. Yet, misreadings of that quotation
began a history of debate over the qualities of painting and
poetry. In particular the eighteenth century became a
battleground over the ut pictura poesis formula. To the modern
reader, this controversy may seem …